Governments Now Hold Around 2.3% of All Bitcoin, and El Salvador Is Still Buying
While headlines this week focused on Bitcoin's pullback, the world's governments kept doing something quieter and more telling: holding and accumulating
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Bitcoin
A Familiar Cycle: Bitcoin's Dip and the Quiet Accumulation Underneath
Bitcoin slipped below R1.05 million (about $64,000) this week, down from roughly $75,800 just days earlier and around 37% lower for the
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Regulation
Two Courts, a Looming Appeal, and a Deadline: The Fight for Our Freedom and Privacy — and Why It’s Up to Us to Retain It
A Gauteng High Court judge has just ruled that Bitcoin is "capital" and "money" under South Africa's Exchange Control
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Daily Update
SA Regulators Preventing Crypto Payments from Replacing Legacy NPS
The SARB declared crypto outside the payment system. But CASPs still face full travel rule compliance on every transaction. Meanwhile, Africa's $205 billion stablecoin economy keeps growing regardless.
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Daily Update
NVIDIA Just Put a Supercomputer in a Laptop — and Crypto AI Agents Are Ready for It
NVIDIA's RTX Spark delivers 1 petaflop of AI on your desk. Over 2.3 million AI agents are already managing crypto wallets. When local AI meets decentralised money, banks and Big Tech both have a problem.
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Daily Update
Only 13% of SA Municipalities Passed Their Audit — Blockchain Could Fix That
Only 34 out of 257 South African municipalities passed their audits. The Philippines just put their entire national budget on blockchain. South Africa should be next.
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The $2 Billion Quantum Bet — and the Freedom Question Nobody’s Asking
The US government just committed $2 billion to build quantum computers — machines so powerful they could eventually crack the encryption that protects every Bitcoin wallet
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America's Clarity Act: Banning CBDCs, and Opening Up to Crypto
The Clarity Act just cleared the US Senate Banking Committee — and for the first time, America has a real framework for how crypto should be
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Bitcoin Just Got Smarter Transactions and Built-In Surveillance Resistance
Bitcoin Core v31.0 dropped on April 19 — and it's the most significant infrastructure upgrade since Replace-by-Fee in 2016. A complete redesign of
Read more →The Over-55s Just Overtook Gen Z in Crypto Ownership in the US. South Africa Hasn't Caught Up Yet.
For the first time in the history of crypto surveys, Americans over 55 own more cryptocurrency than Americans under 25. The National Cryptocurrency Association'
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